Wednesday, 15 February 2017

BENYOMEN LANDBERG

BENYOMEN
LANDBERG (1890-1942)

He was born in Kremenets (Krzemieniec),
Volhynia. He studied in high school and
later at the University of Kiev; Jewish subject matter with his father, Rabbi
Etinger of Kishinev. Over the years
1906-1913, he studied law at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and there
received his doctoral degree. When war
erupted in 1914, he returned to Kremenets, where he was active among the
Zionists. Later (1915), when the Tsarist
expulsion order against the Jews was promulgated for nearby areas, he did
relief worked with refugees in Nizhny-Novgorod.
After returning to Poland in 1918, he practiced law, while at the same
time was a leader in the Jewish community.
He began writing in Russian and in 1920 switched to Yiddish. He was a founder and editor of the weekly
newspaper Kremenitser shtime (Voice
of Kremenets) (1922-1939), in which he regularly published political
articles. He was murdered in the first
Aktion of the Nazis against the Jewish intellectuals in Kremenets in the winter
of 1942.